Bechtel announces Frank Russo as new Vit Plant project director
Tue, January 19, 2010 Richland, Wash. - Effective January 18, the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant
(WTP) Project announces Frank Russo as the new project director. In this position, Russo is responsible
for oversight of the $12.2 billion nuclear waste cleanup project in Richland, Wash.
Russo brings 37 years of experience in engineering, procurement, construction, startup,
commissioning and business management to the WTP Project, including experience in nuclear power
plant construction and with the Department of Energy (DOE). He has served as president of Bechtel
BWXT Idaho, a $140-million-a-year business that processes transuranic nuclear waste, and as senior
director of the Idaho Completion Project, a $5 billion environmental cleanup and completion project.
Most recently, Russo was the Principal Associate Director of Operations & Business at the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), supporting all science weapons and national security missions,
as well as nuclear facility operations at LLNL and the Nevada Test Site.